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...were ready to close shop," said bead section woman Mary J. Ashner, "but the students kept coming. Frankly, we were flabbergasted...
...Sticker. The chore brings out the worst in him. He has called Alan Ladd "the mightiest midget of them all," John Payne "a grimacing sweat bead," and Comic Mort Sahl "the thinking man's Roscoe Ates." He summarized Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, as an "Our Gang comedy for grownups." The Fugitive Kind, a movie based on a Tennessee Williams play, was ''Tennessee Williams tromping around barefooted again in that same old Dixie cup." Dazed by an endless procession of indefatigable ants in Walt Disney's Secrets of Life, Ricketts wrote: "They know nothing...
Both the Army and Air Force produced prototype versions of new weapons last week-just in time to make an impression on congressional budgeteers who will soon be drawing a bead on armed forces expenses...
...York, and there is always the prospect of not enough food to go round. Government officials get impatient over the incompetence and indifference with which many Indians use contraceptives. Attempts to introduce the rhythm system failed in India, even when poor villagers were given strings of calendar beads (green for "safe" days, red for "dangerous"). Some peasant women thought the beads were magic, moved them about until they reached a green bead before intercourse. Last year the Indian government officially endorsed sterilization and budgeted 25 million rupees ($5,250,000) for birth control...
...memory, the infirmities of the human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce "a fusion of fact and fancy." To illustrate his point, Frankfurter drew a bead on James K. Polk, a President who was neither articulate nor imaginative but rather, in Frankfurter's view, a "bookkeeper" and "a dull man." Said Frankfurter: "He wrote a reliable diary...